Speeding around the Earth at 28,000 km/h, NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers captured an incredible view of a phenomenon known as a red sprite. Here's the science behind this 'transient luminous event'.

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Colorful sprites, or transient luminous events, flash above clouds in a video taken by NASA ...

A NASA astronaut drifting high above Earth recently managed to capture a rare phenomenon that scientists have been working to understand for about three decades. Known as a "sprite," the atmospheric ...

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An astronaut captured an elusive glimpse of red lightning from space. NASA astronaut Matthew Dominick imaged the rare red sprite phenomenon from the International Space Station earlier in the year, ...

There are also some other rarer, even more spectacular types of lightning: ...

Scientists are working to understand the curious phenomena of red sprites, green ghosts and blue jets high above thunderstorms. Red spites, a type of transient luminous event or TLE, appear in the ...